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...populist style--that the fat cats hid great crimes behind their great fortunes. (It was based on The Landlord's Game, a didactic board game patented in 1904 by a reformer advocating landlord taxes to counter the exploitation of tenants.) Yet it promised that you too could get rich, by saving your salary, seizing lucky opportunities and winning the occasional second prize in a beauty contest...
With the press, the President has been brimming over with restless energy. Rich Lowry of National Review, who was in a group of conservatives ushered onto the Oval Office couches and found the President to be "utterly self-assured," says the President nearly leaped out of his chair when he made some points. Lowry wrote that Bush untwisted what looked like a paper clip as he talked, "then twisted it around his finger until it was in a little bow." During a Rose Garden press conference, the President thrilled photographers with so many two-handed gestures--now up high...
...which was written by Josh Friedman, is less a response to a novel than it is a synopsis of it-ploddingly plotted, enlivened by the occasional shock occurrence, lacking that attention to mood and nuance which made Curtis Hanson's version of another Ellroy novel, L.A. Confidential, such a rich, rewarding entertainment a few years ago. You begin to wonder: maybe it's time to give film noir a rest. The academics have had their fun with it; no genre has attracted more scholarly attention in recent years. And we've had our fun with...
...that the homosexual act is a sin in the eyes of God. Let us also pretend that Rev. Falwell explained to his audience that through faith, repentance, and God’s Mercy and Grace the homosexual could receive God’s forgiveness, spiritual and emotional healing, and rich blessings in Christ. Can you picture the reaction? TOM GRAFFAGNINO Hamilton, Ga. September...
...enriching the electoral rolls with the names of 327 non-residents. Dominati, denying any wrongdoing, has claimed that adding the names of friends and relatives was "a republican custom." So, he might have argued, was the promise from Chirac this summer that he'd be named ambassador to Honduras - rich in bananas but far from French courtrooms. But according to a report in the daily Le Monde, the Drut case made that offer seem too imprudent...